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first exit polls from georgia just a presence but his ruling party is facing a crushing defeat in the country's parliamentary election. nine medics in bahrain lose an appeal to have their prison sentences overturned in a case that's been slammed as politically motivated. and hundreds of people staged a most of us military base in the japanese on the can of okinawa as washington again props up its presence in the pacific. hello there this is r.t. thanks so much for being with us my name's kevin now in our main story this hour
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the first exit polls from georgia's parliamentary elections suggest the president's ruling party is staring down the barrel of a humiliating defeat tonight the indications so far that it would lose its majority in the chamber with the opposition georgian dream bloc instead taking its place is the major force not he's a lecturer jet ski it's a correspondent on the scene georgian capital tonight either alexei was very noisy when we spoke to earlier on we've now got some of these first exit polls through bring us up to speed and efficient results are due out in seven hours time but the opposition's already celebrating could the number still change. well in fact it still could change this is the only exit poll results it's never an official result we are certain to be waiting for the official results come during the night presumably at three o'clock lord three o'clock in the night local time the first results will come out but i was told that the exit poll results come early on the professional seats in parliament the majority area and seats in parliament have not been counted have not been included into the exit poll results and the situation
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may still change. but definitely with already a conceding defeat defeat the situation is looking very interesting and the mood here in central believes he's already off celebration with thousands already here in the streets driving their cars at a fast speed their horns in celebration of what they believe to be a very crucial victory in a very crucial election i'd like to remind you of us that the path which gains majority in parliament following this vote will then be able to appoint prime minister next year when he steps down and according to the new changes in the georgian constitution the prime minister will have just about the same powers as the president so definitely the path of the party which the alliance of parties which wins the majority of parliament will definitely have the future of georgia in their hands when the final outcome of tonight's poll is known is there any chance of president saakashvili stepping down sooner or no well you know georgia has a somewhat of a very dark record of violent clashes in fact the rems revolution of nine years ago
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which brought me to power or so a result of the parliamentary vote so nobody still knows where this really will this be just a party of celebration essential belief violent clashes could happen very situation and to see whether there will be any violence whether everything will go as smoothly as far as i'm concerned right now there are no indications of any violence everything's been peaceful so far as i said thousands are gathering in central belief for a massive massive political rally of the georgia dream party. only primary results exit polls and. why if it continues as it is why did the popularity of his party apparently fall so dramatically in the weeks leading up to the poll them . clearly that is because a very very turbulent political campaign ahead of the election because in september the rare. video video footage of
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a prison and sexual abuse released to the public in georgia the massive public outcry and that is the one of the reasons why some of the political analysts believe the ruling party's rating dropped as much as by twenty percent it's interesting because the apache ga dream which was founded last year by a tycoon really who makes up half of the country's national budget before that archie was free and everyone said that the opposition stood absolutely no chance of getting anything out of this of this election that the ruling parties rating was too high for anybody to compete with that now according to the exit poll results they could be winning this election which is somewhat of a sensation in georgian politics and definitely will be very interesting to see how the country's internal and domestic and international role change should the opposition gain the majority in the georgian parliament certainly we are following the situation and we'll bring you the latest results as we get them during the
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night really briefly just to clarify first game where the final results are doing tonight. we are expecting the first results to come out at three o'clock in the night three am which is in about five hours six hours from now but certainly as i was told in the central election commission of georgia the. final results will come out somewhere in the morning on tuesday certainly we are waiting for any results to come out from so actually we'll be back she later lectures have ski there live from the georgian capital. bahrain's highest court rejected appeals by nine medics who were handed prison terms for their alleged role in the pro-democracy uprising the original case true criticism from the u.n. and outrage from international rights groups with many calling the verdict politically motivated and the medics treated demonstrators booted in clashes with police and brutally crackdown on peaceful rallies last year a military court earlier found the defendants guilty of attempting to overthrow the government one of the medics will serve five years the rest between a month and three years has got some thoughts on this go straight to the bahraini
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capital for reaction from kalamazoo keyes a member of the country's largest opposition party before masood thank you so much for being on r.t. you're live on air at the moment my name is kevin owen good to see you tonight nine other medics on the same trial were acquitted of all charges in your view how much justice is been served in this entire case than. hard to judicial process and. sort of on the direction of from the telling what happened today the session said that by ruling family members and the whole process is just an extension to that approach and the income would be as extended to the people so there is no talk about justice and it is talk about depression what. i was saying about the process of to the show to the end but it has a. judicial and this is the international laws that are talking about.
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the shallow justice or international but he is so nice and that actually know what he is talking about as not justice and butler and the whole process and not that it be and conduct is just in the control of the ruling and what they want to do what that process they thought of it that way they want it and they that swear. upholding their dicks doors were told to pull the torture that these mistakes were not even attending to the situation for their call and the court did not even can call upon them to be jailed for something on the the list and when it comes to that people or. people who will be in subjected to torture treatment or even killing the court just totally ignoring those to condense
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and they are not putting them in jail they are not questioning it like what they do with the stars when it comes to this if there is a guilty. you will find tenants all these a book or so. and they had to be in prison. it's like maybe their job and others even pullup just expressing their opinions this is the sort of got you on the line there a couple of things when i ask you about before our time runs dozens of protesters have been killed by security forces in bahrain since february last year let's talk about those deaths are they being investigated is anyone likely to be held accountable what do you know about that there were two. to two killing. and they were acquitted and no one found guilty people of those killing and if you look at the pictures of these two men. you'll see
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a bit disturbing picture. as is the one who committed the killing they only sentenced for seven years and maybe at barton will be granted it is because this where we have i don't hundred case or alleged killing by the security forces by the phone and an issue like bullets. and tear gas torturing in stark custody but only three in the process and only one found guilty and the sentence was to step in certainly yes while i let up with this even a thing like that yes he will have some thought up with the protesting he will have some sort of five years somebody who will be accused of. regimes like that twenty one gets their leaders has and shown that. imprisonment for just saying we don't want this. so this is the sort talk.
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that this is giving to the security personnel and this is the sort of unity that encourages more and more they're. saying now on the line was shot i mean there's a lot we could talk about this we could go on for the next half hour or so times but against us but thank you for your thoughts from tonight member of bahrain's largest opposition party appreciate it. well you get more on the ongoing protests in bahrain r.t. dot com as well you can read up on the background of this the tory is case of jail paddocks we're talking about they're also. at the moment accused of breaking the commandment not to steal a post for butler awaits a court decision on charges of theft after private vatican letters were leaked. a moscow court imposed a ban on the notorious anti islam movie the innocence of muslims to funding it as extremists the controversial u.s. made films often blamed for sparking this huge demonstrations we've witnessed
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across the middle east and north africa that began with massive protests in cairo and an armed assault on america's consulate in benghazi libya on september eleventh next on the point reports. this decision doesn't really change that much because even before this court's ruling access to this movie in russia was very limited if not blocked altogether only into a previous decision by a court in church now it's found a content of this movie extremist and inciting ethnic and religious hatred now even before that's ruling in chechnya and number of internet providers in russia to their own initiative blocked access to these movies for their own users as the you tube under some pressure from the russian minister of communication which threatened to suspend the entire you tube side in russia if it would choose to carry on with this movie now what's interesting about the reaction to this film in russia is that despite the fairly large percentage of muslims in this country
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according to some assamese they account for up to fourteen percent we're talking about many millions of people russia hasn't seen any violence of the store that spilled onto the streets in some arab countries and some asian countries and the plaintiffs in both cases both in moscow in in chechnya cited this care of that violence as one of their key arguments in trying to persuade the court to ban access to this movie in this country. for example boycott them the u.s. has deployed six military aircraft to its base on japan's okinawa sparked protests too among locals opposed to the boats the demonstrators say the safety record of the plane helicopter hybrid owners and also puts them at risk of crashes and japanese police are to forcibly remove hundreds of people gathered outside the american base to protest called for the marine base which is in a densely populated area to be shut down peace campaign and human rights activist
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roy dawson says the wishes are unlikely to be met. so these bases cause a lot of problems not only for safety even noise issues in. a lot of conflicts with the servicemen themselves in the local areas but the u.s. isn't going to budge in that position they've been dragging their feet now for six years so i think it's highly unlikely bases will close and nobody wants any of the bases there but for them to be bringing these in the twenty two osprey from boeing is very dangerous a crash just recently is june in florida that could fall on someone's head that's not an exaggeration of these seeing they're a hybrid helicopter airplane and they haven't got the bugs out of them yet they always say they're building up a presence because of north korea and maybe part of that is true but i think a lot of it's about and certainly in china as well it's like world war two never ended and there's still bases in germany as well there are unnecessary the
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residents don't want them but this is u.s. geopolitics they are never somewhere temporarily once the u.s. comes somewhere but they want to exception as saudi arabia and they put a base they never ever leave. still ahead this ridding itself of bad publicity. of cases where the government has tried to shut down court hearings these proposals if they are passed will sweep away hundreds of years that produce legal tradition we look at how the british government considered new legislation which critics say simply to hide it's a bold with the wrong big switch. but the full story about a lot more to come from this short break.
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i never thought i could earn a living this way. natale issue of i as a lawyer should test small arms of the sort i was to machine building plant not earlier sourced count of all the weapons just fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of shooting. the planet's history goes from making firearms during world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans so i was here also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for half a century it thrived on the lesser moods of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is the year old truck factory brushes the number one of the truck
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maker or gravel look at how well the workplace is organized everything's done to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was production is booming in the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these giants are sold around the globe hey. it's a brand new be no way to be delivered to a clients seventy trucks like this once roll up the plants conveyor belt every day look at this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully if i can get up that. i can go for a test drive. oh that was fun perhaps i should get one of these to travel to work every morning was with a cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving my. money
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news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to rule the day.
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hello again with r.t. from moscow this monday evening around the world now in brief heavy gun fire followed by several explosions has been reported on the outskirts of damascus the syrian government. meanwhile the findings continuing at the country's border with turkey to there at least twenty one people have been killed it comes a day off the syrian state t.v. claimed government forces have carried out a successful operation in the country's commercial hub aleppo. it was on unemployment hit a record high of eleven point four percent according to the easter to sticks agency that means then over eighteen million paper affectively out of work with a number of coldness of poles of alarm for european governments meanwhile protests against rage going to point and growing spending cuts continue throughout europe with frustration turning to violent clashes with police.
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plans for a new justice and security bill in the u.k. of spark criticism the country could expand its system of secret courts it's claimed the move could help the government dodge allegations of complicity in the abuse of detainees abroad or smith looks into how westminster is trying to take political advantage of the proposed legislation. nipping charges of complicity in the bud that's what the u.k. government admits it's trying to do with its plans for secret courts ministers have all more secret courts a needed to protect sensitive information and the workings of security agencies but in documents seen by the guardian newspaper the government acknowledges it would benefit politically able to defend itself from allegations like complicity and torture without the details ever becoming public there have been a number of cases where the government has the government's lawyers have tried to shut down court hearings and have things heard in private and it has transpired
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through the judicial process that what they were really trying to cover out was a lot of government embarrassment about wrongdoing our main within the agencies that these proposals if they're passed will sweep away hundreds of years that the british legal tradition the proposals follow a law suit brought by binyam mohamed who was held in guantanamo and all good the british government was complicit in his rendition and torture mohammed won the case to the d.p. million and of the government and now they're trying to change the law so that government often a party in these matters would decide if a case should be heard in secret it wouldn't just be kept from the public if the proposals go ahead neither the defendant nor the defendant's legal team would be able to hear the evidence against them human rights lawyers are concerned it would trample on the principle of a fair trial in effect a large chunk and presumably
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a very important chunk of the case that you're trying to run about half your client you're going to be. there are going to be behind closed doors closed sessions that you are not allowed access to so if there is an inherent on furnace there is a huge scope for. future miscarriages of justice evident. am i five and m i six knew that britons were being tortured in guantanamo m i six helping to deliver libyan dissidents into the hands of gadhafi secret police critics say that's the kind of information the bill is designed to suppress so begg who was held and he alleges tortured him by graham and guantanamo has a special interest in making sure there are no more secrets i remember the discussions that were taking place at the time it was very old former guantanamo prisoners on one side sixteen of us and a whole bunch of government officials on the other side having a discussion negotiating a settlement we would have been able to do that basically we would have been able
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to certainly try to take the government to court but we would have to do it with our hands tied behind the back even the government admits that black and asian muslim men will be disproportionately affected as it's they who are most often involved in cases where sensitive information is being considered and still the bill rolls on the plans for so-called secret justice are proven so deeply controversial that they've been delayed but like a bad penny they keep turning up and every time they do it gives human rights groups another opportunity to weigh in proposed legislation they say goes against one of the founding principles of the british legal system not only that justice is done but that it seemed to be done laura smith r.t. london. was not dimitris up the business for us hi there the russian markets. on a very positive note more than two percent gains for both the r.t.s.
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and the biceps that's on the back of a global high plus there's several interesting stories. on the back of finishing the acquisition of these detainees back also gazprom secured a twenty year contract in the. natural gas. now over in the united states we're seeing a positive dynamic with the dow jones up zero point seven four percent as you can see the nasdaq is however lower this is after weeks of manufacturing data coming out on the. increase in first one and four months so basically that's positive news . on the nasdaq bucking the trend was facebook it's up one half percent as its head mark zuckerberg needs it in moscow we're told about that fifty five minutes time in europe we're also seeing a positive session with the end acts up one after said despite the fact that the euro zone unemployment came in a record eighteen point two million people without
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a job but the mining sector was driving the growth for the strata up more than three percent after it except the day merger. a merger deal with glen point a national train company and in currencies the euro is stronger versus the greenback while the russian ruble managed to strengthen at the end of the session in the final minutes against both currencies half a percent versus the greenback. that's all i have signed for this hour but i'll be back with plenty more fifty five minutes thanks to major in a couple of minutes we uncover the murky world of hostage taking profit making and corruption you know jiri is oil industry at so next program. culture is that so much a given to each musician of our mind as a friend in the arab spring the arab winter where does this great liberation project stand in the arab middle east and where is it going are the forces of
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i mean the best is yet to be seen lost in the brush just
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a few meters away i think. olympic committee you know i think i'm president of them for the boy. obasanjo the former president of nigeria much too doesn't want from me but i got manager was a beaut. for such institute here. so me and i walk was supposed to be fully and be much but that's his pick this is the only it's a cute. i listen to this a true this is on guys research institute in nigeria yeah that's a good resource that i tell you got them out there dude i said if you want to come yeah it will be you see a lot doesn't interest and i say you do i did say this is so i'm disappointed by the president not that much this time not mean is the president will be put out of public and i did. that is what we have been.
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locked up. for talking three million inhabitants the principal city of the delta and growing exponentially expansionists like the nigerian to work on the platforms often live here when they're ashore. we're in the car of patrick and we met on the f.p.s. so. he's head of the control room a major post two weeks at sea two weeks ashore he suggested that we stop to visit his home just now patrick is off to fetch his children from school. normally. gone out for a drive but you don't know it's difficult for you to trust somebody here because of how the little stories in their back. to point employed.

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